Grants Roundup: Florida Hospital Gets $13 Million; Walmart Gives $5 Million to Goodwill Jobs Program
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Advice
June 20, 2018 | Read Time: 2 minutes
Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
Walton Family Foundation
$100 million to create new types of high-quality teaching approaches within public school districts, private schools, and schools that serve student populations with unique needs.
Bainum Family Foundation
$12.8 million over 10 years to the Florida Hospital Foundation to build and endow an early-childhood development center that will serve 150 infants and toddlers in Orlando, Fla.
John M. Belk Endowment
$10.9 million to the North Carolina State University College of Education to enhance its support services for community colleges in North Carolina.
William Penn Foundation
$6.6 million to the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission to provide technical assistance and issue grants to nonprofit groups to plan, design, and develop hundreds of miles of new trails in southeastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Walmart Foundation
$5 million to Goodwill Industries International to sustain its Operation: GoodJobs program, which helps veterans and military families find meaningful employment.
Strada Education Network
$3 million to the University of Hawaii to strengthen career pathways in Hawaii.
Echoing Green
$2.2 million in 35 fellowships to 26 organizations worldwide. The recipients have each been awarded up to $90,000 in cash grants over two years, in addition to mentoring and networking opportunities for their leaders, program support, and health-care benefits.
Vera Z. Dwyer Charitable Trust
$1.8 million to the Center for Hospice Care to increase the number of hospice and palliative-care physicians in northern Indiana.
Braman Family Foundation
$1 million to Miami Dade College and Florida International University for scholarships that will enable 1,000 students at the two institutions to complete their studies during the 2018-19 academic year.
San Francisco Foundation
$1 million to Lava Mae to expand its program that provides mobile showers, as well as free haircuts, dental care, clothing, food, and job-search counseling, to help homeless communities in Berkeley and Oakland, Calif.
New Grant Opportunity
The AmerisourceBergen Foundation, the pharmaceutical company’s charitable arm, is accepting letters of intent from U.S. nonprofit groups through its Opioid Resource Grant Program. Projects must be focused on the safe disposal of prescription opioids and education to prevent abuse; treatment and recovery programs and research projects are not eligible at this time. The foundation will issue grants worth up to $100,000 each, with an average award valued between $50,000 and $75,000. Letters of intent are due July 31.
Send grant announcements to grants.editor@philanthropy.com.
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Correction: A previous version of this article misstated the number of organizations receiving fellowships from Echoing Green and neglected to include the number of fellowships.
Echoing Green
$2.2 million in 35 fellowships to 26 organizations worldwide. The recipients have each been awarded up to $90,000 in cash grants over two years, in addition to mentoring and networking opportunities for their leaders, program support, and health-care benefits.
